Discussion»Questions»Animals (Wild)» My wife found one of these today. It's called a wheel bug. (A true bug.) Have you ever seen one? USA and Canada only.
This fall I have started seeing Praying mantis in my area I have never seen them in this area or on the Island before so I think something is up like globule warming and the food chain. Cheers!
I have seen them. I thought it was a leaf-hopper thingie. Look at how amazing that construction is on that body. Just marvelous. This is what we picture aliens to look like.
My small brain just caught on to why it is called a wheel bug, Welb. It is that cog thing on his back. It looks like a half of a wheel with cogs. So bizarre. I wonder what it is for.
Yes, I have seen them. It's my understanding that they will climb into the anus of mammals while they sleep and lay eggs. The eggs hatch and the larvae work it's a way through the inner organs feeding off scraps of undigested meat and fatty tissue. This marvel of nature then embeds itself to the walls of the digestive system. Once the insect reaches maturation, it exits the chrysalis as a fully formed adult. It then seeks an exit from the body. Curiously, it does so by honing in on the bladder where it follows the urinary tract using it like a game-trail. With its highly sensitive receptors to sense uric acid, detecting the flow of urine, it burrows through soft flesh until it exits through the urethra where it beings it's wonderous life-cycle anew.
This post was edited by Jon at October 28, 2019 2:02 PM MDT
One of those anus-hatched eggs is sitting in the Oval Office in the best seat in the nation.
This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at October 28, 2019 1:13 PM MDT
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